After our oceans, our soil is our planet’s next biggest carbon sink (four times more powerful than all the plant life on Earth). The bad news is that the constant depletion of the soil via a range of chemical fertilizers …
The Environmental Effects of Soil Depletion and What We Can Do About Them Read More »
About a month ago I took this online survey of my attitudes and beliefs so that a piece of artificial intelligence could suggest the country best suited to my tastes should I be forced to expatriate due to a Trump …
Here’s an exciting development that lies squarely on the intersection of the main problems we face in making the migration from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Combining solar energy with storage, it’s a device that converts incoming solar energy directly …
Breakthrough in Energy Storage from the University of Wisconsin Read More »
As reported by my colleague Jon LeSage in his terrific publication Green Auto Digest, the most influential car show in the world, The Paris Auto Show, is featuring an enormous range of electric vehicles, spurred on at least in some …
Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Has Silver Lining Read More »
My first reaction to the concept of autonomous cars was not a good one. You want to replace the driver? We like driving. How about replacing some of the things that we don’t like, e.g., the fuel that’s ruining …
Check Out What Singapore’s Doing in Autonomous Vehicles Read More »
We all know the wonderful story of Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg and its ‘opening act,” an incredibly brilliant and touching two-hour speech by Edward Everett, one of U.S. history’s greatest orators. Later, Everett wrote to Lincoln, expressing his admiration of …
A Few Data Points on Energy and the Environment from a True Master of the Subject Read More »
It’s the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald who said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” This, in turn, …
In researching my four books I came upon numerous excuses for not dealing with climate change. Some of these were laughable, e.g., the CATO Institute’s position that the effects of climate change are small at this point, thus so should …
I’ve been asked to speak at a conference next month in Connecticut, and I thought readers may be interested in my outline for the talk: Why cleantech is destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century Tech in …
We’ve all seen the plummeting prices of solar, wind, energy efficiency solutions, energy storage and the rest. And while all that’s good, it creates huge stressors on other areas of clean energy technology: hydrokinetics, biomass and geothermal. Having said that, …
Is Hydrokinetics Coming to Myanmar? Probably Not Read More »
